Infections and Human Cancer: Cancer Surveys, Volume 33; Microbes and Malignancy: Infection as a cause of human cancers

Infections and Human Cancer: Cancer Surveys, Volume 33

Eds Robert Newton, Valerie Beral, Robin A Weiss

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, $93, pp 396

ISBN 0 87969 549 8

Microbes and Malignancy: Infection as a cause of human cancers

Ed Julie Parsonnet

Oxford University Press, £59.50, pp 478

ISBN 0 19 510401 3

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Few readers have avoided the unpleasant surprise of getting or, worse, buying a book with an attractive title, distinguished editors, and outstanding authors, only to find that what they have got is a collection of essays, reviews, or even research papers that were written on the occasion of a scientific meeting or without a clearly stated objective or a guiding principle. There is no such risk with these two books, each of which presents authoritative and critical...